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Originally published on The Whole Sky.I read David Lancy’s “The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, and Changelings” and highlighted some passages. A lot of passages, it turns out. [content...
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Periodically people ask what I thought of Larissa MacFarquhar’s coverage of Jeff and me in Strangers Drowning. The book is about extreme altruism, and one of the chapters focused on us and other...
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Content: Spoilers for Matilda. Lots of offensive bits of old books, lots of body image stuff. ….. I try not to follow Minor Things The Internet Is Angry About, but I’m interested in the uproar about...
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